Ian Al
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Authored by Ian Al on Oct 11, 2013 12:55:40 GMT
The Patently O article, Patent Invalid for Failure to Claim “What the Applicant Regards as His Invention” is interesting. It is in the 'doing-stuff-on-the-internet' type of invention. The patent spouts a whole lot of stuff about doing some process on the interweb using computer interfaces, but the claims and specification fail to claim an actual invention. It demonstrates that doing stuff on the internet that maps to the patent claims is not infringement, of itself. It is the claimed invention which is protected. If you put a whole load of waffle about processes, flowcharts, communications links, servers and computer interfaces in your patent, make sure you make it very clear what in the waffle is your claimed invention. Many of the IV and IV-spawn troll patents fail in this regard. Come to that, so do many of the Apple patents. They called me Al. They called me Al all the time.
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